I have a user that needs to get a proposal out to a customer today by 3pm and am under the gun. The user has a large 147 page Word 2000 doc with tables and graphics that is saying it is corrupted when opening it. I have tried copying and pasting into a new doc, opening a new doc then doing insert file but I can't seem to fix the problem. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Best I can think of is to try and narrow down the section that may be causing the problem. Copy the first 50% of pages and save that as a file - Does it have the fault. Copy the next half of pages and do the same. Then just keep disecting the faulty set by 2.
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Fltsimtestguy
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I know it may be too late for this to be of any help to you now, but I live in Korea and my time is different.
I had the same problem a couple weeks ago and after searching the web I found this and it worked.
1. Open your registry (Click START, select RUN and type in regedit and click on OK.
2. click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3. Click on SOFTWARE
4. Click on MICROSOFT
5. Click on OFFICE
6. Click on WORD
7. Click on OPTIONS
8. Right click in the data field on the right and the "NEW" box is displayed.
9. as you position the cursor over the "NEW" box, a pulldown is displayed.
10. Click on DWORD value.
11. Change the name to LTOverflowRecovery.
12. Right click on the LTOverflowRecovery DWORD and a pull down will be displayed.
13. Click on MODIFY and change the value data to 1.
14. Save the registry and I think you may have to re-boot.
I did this with trepidation but it worked!
Best of luck,
fltsimtestguy
I had the same problem a couple weeks ago and after searching the web I found this and it worked.
1. Open your registry (Click START, select RUN and type in regedit and click on OK.
2. click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3. Click on SOFTWARE
4. Click on MICROSOFT
5. Click on OFFICE
6. Click on WORD
7. Click on OPTIONS
8. Right click in the data field on the right and the "NEW" box is displayed.
9. as you position the cursor over the "NEW" box, a pulldown is displayed.
10. Click on DWORD value.
11. Change the name to LTOverflowRecovery.
12. Right click on the LTOverflowRecovery DWORD and a pull down will be displayed.
13. Click on MODIFY and change the value data to 1.
14. Save the registry and I think you may have to re-boot.
I did this with trepidation but it worked!
Best of luck,
fltsimtestguy
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Fltsimtestguy
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Unfortunately I do not know if this fix will fix any corrupt issues that may exist on a computer that doesn't have the change to the registry. Please let me how the file works. I first noticed the problem when I attempted to make Master Document that include some rather large documents.
I hope my input was helpful.
I hope my input was helpful.
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